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It's time, Robbie.

Welcome to the Next Best Picture Podcast.

And the Oscar goes to the shape of water.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 118 of the Next Best Picture Podcast.

I am your host, Matt Naglia.

Time of recording is 139 p.m.

on November 25th, 2018. Joining me for this episode, I have Michael Schwartz.

Hello everyone. Tom O'Brien. Hey, everybody. And Dan Baer.

Hope everyone's Thanksgiving was delicious. Oh, it most certainly was. And I hope you all definitely had a really, really wonderful Thanksgiving, a time to get together with family, hopefully not talk

about politics, and hopefully also catch up on some movies. So before we get into everything that

we have to discuss this week related to the Oscar season, I want to ask everyone first, what did they catch up on over the Thanksgiving holiday? Michael, let's start off with you. I saw a few movies over Thanksgiving. The first one I saw was Ralph breaks the internet, which I saw on Friday. And I was a pretty big fan of a record Ralph a few years ago. I can't believe it was six years ago. So, you know, I've had

pretty high hopes going into the sequel, and I would say they were surpassed. You know, I thought this was really excellent. I think I might even prefer to Rickett Ralph. I have not seen Reckett Ralph, the first film, but I took a chance, and I saw the sequel, and I can't make that comparison, but I have to say, I very much enjoyed it as well.

Look, they're both really great, but I have to say, I very much enjoyed it as well.

Look, they're both really great, but I think this one had some really clever moments and how it dealt with the internet.

And I think the Disney scenes in particular were fantastic.

You know, it would have been very easy for that just to feel like a giant commercial, which it is.

But it felt ingrained into the story in a way that really made feel like a giant commercial, which it is, but it felt

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